Maryland’s Larry Hogan and Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer decried his comments on disinfectants.
Michigan’s and Maryland’s governors said the president should watch what he says, especially about injecting disinfectants. People are listening to his direction.
President Donald Trump suggested at his Thursday briefing that disinfectants could work as a coronavirus treatment if taken internally, drawing immediate criticism from medical professionals and cleaning product manufacturers, like Lysol. A day later, Trump said he never meant his remarks to be taken seriously: “That was done in the form of a sarcastic question to the reporters.”
On Sunday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, said on ABC’s “This Week” that whether or not Trump was being serious, his suggestion had an impact.
Whitmer said she saw an increase in numbers of people calling poison control and issued yet another warning: “Please don’t do it. Just don’t do it.”
Hogan, whose emergency management agency sent an alert after Trump’s comments, said “hundreds of calls” had been made to the state’s hotline asking if ingesting Clorox or alcohol cleaning products would help fight coronavirus.
“People listen to these press conferences,” Hogan said. “They certainly pay attention when the president of the United States is standing there giving a press conference … when misinformation comes out or you just say something that pops in your head, it does send a wrong message.
He added, “We had to put out that warning to make sure that people were not doing something like that, which would kill people.”
Whitmer, in a separate interview, said basically the same thing: “When the person with the most powerful position on the planet is encouraging people to think about disinfectants, whether it was serious or not, people listen.”
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